Josh Welle

Josh Welle (1979-) was an American Democratic Party politician from Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Biography
Josh Welle was born in Mercer County, New Jersey in 1979 and graduated from Wall High School in Monmouth County in 1997. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 2002 with a bachelors in political science, and he served in the Iraq War and in the Afghanistan War as a US Navy officer. From 2006 to 2008, he worked as a political science instructor in Annapolis, Maryland, and he co-founded a software company in 2015 before becoming CEO and COO. In 2017, he announced his candidacy for New Jersey's 4th congressional district, which included much of central New Jersey. Welle was a member of the Democratic Party, and he identified as a "centrist at heart", hoping to appeal to Republican Party voters with his military and business backgrounds.